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Lib Dem Rod Cantrill led the seven candidates with 19.3 per cent of the support, Labour's Kevin Price received 16.6 per cent and Conservative James Palmer had 15.7 per cent of support.

The Green Party's Julie Howell attracted 6.8 per cent of support, UKIP's Paul Bullen only 4.4 per cent, while 6.5 per cent of respondents would back another candidate. This includes the English Democrats' Stephen Goldspink and independent Peter Dawe.

In the city of Cambridge, the Lib Dem and Labour candidate have significant polling leads over the other candidates. Data shows that Rod Cantrill attracted 22.4 per cent of support, but Labour's Kevin Price is slightly ahead with just under 24 per cent.

James Palmer attracted 8.2 per cent of city voters, while Julie Howell is not far behind on 6.7 per cent.

The pictured is markedly different outside of Cambridge among respondents living in South and East Cambridgeshire.

In both voting districts James Palmer leads the other candidates. In South Cambridgeshire he has 21.8 per cent of support, while Rod Cantrill has 18.2 per cent and Kevin Price has 15.6 per cent.

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In East Cambridgeshire, James Palmer attracts 28.8 per cent of respondents' support, while Rod Cantrill receives 15.3 per cent and Kevin Price just 5.7 per cent. However, survey samples for this region are smaller than Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire.

County residents will be electing their new mayor through the Supplementary Vote system. Voters will asked to choose both their first and second preferences from the candidates.

If one candidate wins more than half of the votes he or she will be elected. If not, then the top two candidates will go through to a second round where the second choice votes of losing candidates will be distributed between them.

Rod Cantrill again leads the pack on second choice votes, with 15 per cent of respondents assigning theirs to the Lib Dem candidate.

The Green's Julie Howell, the only woman candidate, is close behind with 14 per cent.

Labour's Kevin Price attracts 11 per cent of second choice votes and Conservative James Palmer is close behind on 9 per cent.

Survey data comes from polling 986 people using random sampling on the Cambridge News website via Google Surveys. It was collected between April 11 to 17.